Site Engineer Contracts in England

Site Engineer
UK > England

The median Site Engineer daily rate in England is £555 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 510 613
Rank change year-on-year +79 +103 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 104 153 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.32% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 129 110
10th Percentile £428 £500 £431
25th Percentile £500 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £694 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £765 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Site Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +45 53 £678 +4.23% 36
South East +42 18 £497 +1.85% 7
North of England +21 15 £550 -21.43% 20
South West +33 12 £525 -34.38% 10
Yorkshire +20 8 £550 -26.67% 7
North West -4 7 £550 -21.43% 12
West Midlands +29 3 £500 - 5
Midlands +22 3 £500 - 14
Site Engineer
UK

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Site Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 98 (94.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 65 (62.50%) DevOps
3 62 (59.62%) Kubernetes
4 59 (56.73%) Python
5 51 (49.04%) Prometheus
6 50 (48.08%) Terraform
7 49 (47.12%) AWS
8 39 (37.50%) Grafana
9 37 (35.58%) Linux
9 37 (35.58%) CI/CD
10 36 (34.62%) Go
11 33 (31.73%) Java
12 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
13 26 (25.00%) Containerisation
13 26 (25.00%) Docker
13 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (24.04%) Kafka
15 24 (23.08%) Task Automation
15 24 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (23.08%) Azure
16 23 (22.12%) Microsoft
17 22 (21.15%) QA
17 22 (21.15%) Security Cleared
18 20 (19.23%) Microservices
19 19 (18.27%) Ansible
20 18 (17.31%) Jenkins
20 18 (17.31%) Splunk
20 18 (17.31%) Agile
20 18 (17.31%) Distributed Systems
21 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.62%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.88%) Apache
2 3 (2.88%) nginx
3 2 (1.92%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 49 (47.12%) AWS
2 24 (23.08%) Azure
3 14 (13.46%) OpenShift
3 14 (13.46%) Snowflake
4 12 (11.54%) GCP
5 10 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (9.62%) dbt
5 10 (9.62%) GitHub
6 8 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.77%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.81%) Serverless
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (2.88%) Anthos
9 3 (2.88%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) DHCP
1 3 (2.88%) DNS
1 3 (2.88%) Internet
2 2 (1.92%) Network Security
2 2 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.96%) AMQP
3 1 (0.96%) Broadband
3 1 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) IPv4
3 1 (0.96%) MPLS
3 1 (0.96%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 12 (11.54%) MySQL
4 11 (10.58%) MongoDB
5 10 (9.62%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (9.62%) Apache Arrow
5 10 (9.62%) Big Data
5 10 (9.62%) Dremio
6 9 (8.65%) Relational Database
7 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (6.73%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.88%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.88%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.92%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.92%) Redis
12 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (17.31%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.62%) Git
2 10 (9.62%) GitLab
3 8 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 7 (6.73%) JIRA
4 7 (6.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (4.81%) AppScan
5 5 (4.81%) Burp Suite
6 4 (3.85%) Subversion
7 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
General
1 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (15.38%) Finance
3 7 (6.73%) Retail
4 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.92%) Banking
5 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.96%) Legal
6 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.04%) Kafka
2 16 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (14.42%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (9.62%) gRPC
4 10 (9.62%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (8.65%) RESTful
6 2 (1.92%) .NET
6 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.92%) LDAP
7 1 (0.96%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.58%) Hedge funds
4 10 (9.62%) Clustering
5 9 (8.65%) Algorithms
5 9 (8.65%) Data Structures
5 9 (8.65%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.88%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.96%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (35.58%) Linux
2 15 (14.42%) Windows
3 11 (10.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.96%) CentOS
5 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (94.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 65 (62.50%) DevOps
3 37 (35.58%) CI/CD
4 26 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (23.08%) Task Automation
6 20 (19.23%) Microservices
7 18 (17.31%) Agile
8 15 (14.42%) Configuration Management
9 13 (12.50%) Observability
10 12 (11.54%) GitOps
10 12 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.54%) Systems Engineering
11 11 (10.58%) Asset Management
11 11 (10.58%) Investment Management
11 11 (10.58%) ITSM
12 10 (9.62%) Incident Response
13 9 (8.65%) Analytical Thinking
13 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (56.73%) Python
2 36 (34.62%) Go
3 33 (31.73%) Java
4 16 (15.38%) Bash
4 16 (15.38%) SQL
5 15 (14.42%) Shell Script
6 12 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 10 (9.62%) JavaScript
8 8 (7.69%) C#
8 8 (7.69%) C++
8 8 (7.69%) F#
9 3 (2.88%) Ruby
10 2 (1.92%) Bicep
10 2 (1.92%) C
11 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) Degree
3 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.15%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.88%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (25.00%) Docker
2 11 (10.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (59.62%) Kubernetes
2 51 (49.04%) Prometheus
3 50 (48.08%) Terraform
4 39 (37.50%) Grafana
5 19 (18.27%) Ansible
6 13 (12.50%) Progress Chef
7 11 (10.58%) Consul
7 11 (10.58%) Puppet
8 10 (9.62%) Istio
9 8 (7.69%) HP Fortify
10 7 (6.73%) Argo
10 7 (6.73%) Graylog
10 7 (6.73%) Kibana
11 5 (4.81%) Nessus
11 5 (4.81%) WebInspect
12 4 (3.85%) Opsgenie
13 3 (2.88%) Nagios
14 2 (1.92%) Kiali
15 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.31%) Splunk
3 11 (10.58%) SaltStack
4 8 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.77%) New Relic
6 5 (4.81%) Adobe
6 5 (4.81%) Checkmarx
6 5 (4.81%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.81%) Google
6 5 (4.81%) PagerDuty
6 5 (4.81%) SAP
6 5 (4.81%) Veracode
7 3 (2.88%) VMware
8 1 (0.96%) BT
8 1 (0.96%) Citrix
8 1 (0.96%) Databricks